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“Ready?” she asked.
I looked into her eyes. “Ready.”
We turned and walked back to where Dagger stood. My eyes locked with his, and he grinned. Before I could say anything, all hell broke loose.
Someone had seen us, picked up on us, orsomething.
“They’re onto us,” I said and spun to face the house.
“The moment you two got together, your collective power rocked outward in a wave no one could miss,” Dagger said. “I felt it all the way over here, and no doubt, they felt it, too.”
The house looked like an ant’s nest had been interrupted, and creatures poured out of it. They crawled up the walls and onto the roof, they swarmed toward us, they climbed into the fence and onto the garden shed. They wereeverywhere.
I shifted and roared loudly, my power behind the battle cry. My pack members around us shifted into their animal forms.
Suddenly, the fight was on. I hadn’t meant to have it out here in the middle of the street where the rest of the world could see us. I’d meant to attack inside the house.
I looked over my shoulder toward the car where Uma got out. She had the other fae—Circe—with her and two more that I vaguely recognized.
“We’ve got this,” Uma said. She didn’t shout—I could hear her with my shifter hearing.
I nodded and ran toward the house. Uma and her fae friends were going to wrap the fight up, shrouding it from the rest of the world. She was here, not to fight alongside us, but to contain it. We’d decided it this morning, so that no matter how big this got, it wouldn’t end ugly for the humans who were innocent and didn’t need this mess in their lives.
Kinley was right behind me as I ran.
All around me, vampires and monsters attacked, but I didn’t face off against them. As far as we ran, shifters attacked the creatures who tried to attack us, taking care of them to keep us open and leave a clear path to the house. I was going for the center, to be in the middle of it all.
We burst in through the front door and immediately came face to face with more monsters.
I attacked, and Kinley was behind me, her familiar wave of magic brushing up against me, and I wasn’t worried about her. She could hold her own in a fight more than any shifter I’d seen.
She attacked, drained magic, killed. She made quick work of the first three.
I focused on the monster that attacked me. I knew how they fought now that we’d come up against them a couple of times. I ripped off limbs and chewed up throats, taking out one, two, three, and then two more.
Cal was in the room, and my eyes locked on his.
He swallowed hard when I stalked closer to him and looked at Kinley, who was making quick work of yet another creature. I’d lost count of how many she’d killed, a trail of veryhumanbodies littered in her wake.
Her power was truly one-of-a-kind, and my heart swelled with pride that this female had chosen me. She was mine.
I faced Cal again.
“How did you get out?” Cal shouted, his voice shrill.
Piece of shit traitor.
A monster attacked me from the side, and I had to defend myself again.
While I did, Cal took the distraction and high-tailed it out of the room.
Pussy.
The monster tackled me to the ground, claws digging into my skin, and I roared, twisting out from underneath the giant body. A second monster joined in, and I was outnumbered… until Kinley grabbed one from behind. I watched as the dark magic faded. The vampire that remained turned human, its eyes filling with confusion and fear. Killing the human was easy, and the other monster scrambled away, screeching in fear.
He spun around and headed toward the door.
Good, my pack members were outside waiting. Someone would get a hold of that one. He wouldn’t get away.
